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Classical Flashcards

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1st Viennese school

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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

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Absolute music

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Music that doesn’t represent anything

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Opera buffa

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Comedic or humorous opera

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Age of Enlightenment

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Focused on simply what was meant to be pleasing to a listener

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Program music

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Music that is based on something

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Opera seria

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Noble and serious style of opera

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Sturm und drang

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Means storm and stress in English, very expressive music

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Agitato

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Agitated music

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Con brio

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With spirit

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Singspiel

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Musical work characterized by spoken dialogue and songs

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Vivace

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Lively

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Maestoso

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Majestic and stately

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Pants role

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When a female plays a male character

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Andante

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Moderately slow

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Ma non troppo

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But not too much

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Andante grandioso

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Tempo that is slow and graceful

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Allegro molto

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music played in a very swift tempo

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Expressivo

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Alla turca

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Turkish music

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Sonata rondo

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ABA - C - ABA

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Cadenza

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A solo passage inserted into a movement in a concerto typically near the end of the movement

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Cantabile

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Allegro assai

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Very fast tempo

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Scherzo

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Basset horn
Instrument in the clarinet family tuned to F
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Largo sostenuto
Sustained for a long time
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Double fugue
Two fugues happening at the same time
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Double exposition
Orchestra plays the theme first, then soloist joins in
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Tripartite
Composed of or split into three parts
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Virtuosic
Having an amazing ability at their instrument

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